If anyone has a dog handy, could you give them a pet on my behalf? Usually elections turn out well if I pet a dog on the way to vote, but I didn't even encounter any dogs today! Maybe it will work by proxy?

1. eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! this is exciting! yay for you voting with your conscience and not for those liberal hacks.

2. lol you called my appearance L! just gave winston some hearty pets, hopefully that's enough bring positive results to this election!

3. pub night tonight - so happy the grand opening of the new pub across the road is tonight! the liberal candidate in my riding is having their party later at the "other" new pub that opened across the road last fall.

3a. elxn results and hockey and beer (and the end of tax season!) - going to be stellar.

My attempts to watch Atlantic CBC have been foiled by Rogers, which blocked the signal. And the #elxn41 feed is cluttered up with people tweeting "YAY I voted". Do we really have to wait TWO WHOLE HOURS for information? #FirstWorldProblems

They aren't allowed to broadcast them to people whose polls are still open. Newfoundland and Labrador can totally talk among themselves, they just can't broadcast it into Ontario. But being a child of the internet age, I'm expecting the information to fall into my hands anyway :)

Jus walked Negrita and she'll be happy to help the cause by taking one (belly rub) for the team.

As for reporting I was just talking to the fairly well informed neighbour who said that there will be coverage as early as 9:30? Early results I guess. According to the Election Act is is ilegal but I can't say I have been all that aware of this until this year. My memories of past elections include hearing the results from Eastern Canada as soon as they were counted but maybe I have a faulty memory.

Fun fact: I was a bit too young to watch the original Star Wars trilogy when it first came out, and we didn't have a VCR until I was in my early teens. As a result, I knew that Darth Vader was Luke Skywalker's father before I knew who Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker are.

Yeah, it was totally the thing to do in my high school in the months leading up to the release of the prequels. The originals were always playing in some movie theatre or another, and I like nerdy boys so I saw them many many times.

The proportions of votes in my own riding in no way correspond with anything I could see with my own eyes about signage or online engagement or walking-around real life. I don't know how I'm supposed to tell what my riding's doing.

This is too depressing. The "orange wave" may very well be handing the Harper Cons a MAJORITY government (Per CBC). This is what I was afraid of. Is it worth it? To have another Conservative, probably majority, government? Does more NDP seats make it worth it? Not to me.

The only possible outcome of the Orange surge was another Harper Con government. That's what I meant when I said I wish I could share your enthusiasm for another Con government because to me an NDP opposition = a Conservative gov't. I know some interpreted it as snarky but it's really just stating the obvious.

As of now CBC is (cautiously) projecting the Harper Cons are only five seat aways from a majority. There's no question the Harper Cons have GAINED seats in the house. I can't find anything to celebrate in that. It's horrible for women, war resisters, the most vulnerable in our society. If the projections hold true it's a very sad day for Canada.

This is too depressing. The "orange wave" may very well be handing the Harper Cons a MAJORITY government (Per CBC). This is what I was afraid of. Is it worth it? To have another Conservative, probably majority, government? Does more NDP seats make it worth it? Not to me.

Good grief. I'd never tell anyone who to vote for. Ever. I never have, I never will.

I would never tell a person their party of choice "sucks". Please. Here's the best part - I don't need outside validation about who to vote for!

I am perfectly entitled to be horrified about a Harper Majority. I am not blaming the NDP, or their supporters for ANYTHING. I said to me an NDP opposition = a Conservative gov't. You said that's not a fact, it's a matter of opinion. So at what point does it become fact Laura? Because I'm watching the same broadcasts you are. It looks like fact to me.

My only goal, the only outcome I wanted from this election was to see the Conservatives booted from power. That's it. I don't belong to a party, I'm not blindly loyal to a party, and I'm sick of partisan bickering and vitrol. I resent having people jump up my arse because I didn't hop on the NDP bandwagon - I have my reasons for not doing so and non of them have anything to do with loyalty to the Liberal party.

I feel like I can't say anything right at this point so I'll bow out of this thread and head off to bed before the reality of a Con majority sets in.

I said to me an NDP opposition = a Conservative gov't. You said that's not a fact, it's a matter of opinion. So at what point does it become fact Laura? Because I'm watching the same broadcasts you are. It looks like fact to me.

It's a matter of opinion, because a Liberal opposition could be the same thing! An NDP opposition doesn't equal a Tory majority anymore than a Liberal opposition equals a Tory majority.

We could have seen a Conservative minority and a healthy showing for both the Libs and the NDP. But we didn't, we saw a repudiation of the Liberals because they haven't earned the vote.

I'm not saying your choice of voting Liberal sucks. That's your choice and it was almost mine and it doesn't suck.

But the Liberals SUCK right now. They are out of ideas and out of leadership.

I have just become more politically motivated. I will sign every petition and fight at every turn now. I will do My part in drowning out a Harper scumbag who tashes everything I hold dear about this country. I REFUSE to let that man win any control over me!!!!

I join in solidarity with our fellow nauseated. As an expat, can say not what we came for. Even our "safe" riding went blue. It's deja vu all over again and we know where this goes. Will there be protest? Is there any hope?

Yep, those Quebecers - not likely to be happy campers this way. Some hints this was part of game plan to loosen up the federation. So, it's a sea change all right -- just not the sea change a lot of us want.

The Conservative platform is less consistent with...what's the phrase they use in English..."the values and interests of the people of Quebec". The Bloc is no longer in a position to temper this. If Quebec sees Canada becoming less and less like it wants to be, it may be increasingly motivated towards separation.

You've just answered my question: no, that is not all it would take, it would also need [a referendum].

Sorry, that was intended to be implicit in my statement. It will create "winning conditions" in Quebec (a loaded phrase in Canada connoting the stars aligning to allow a QC referendum which results in separation.

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